Gooseberries Quote by Anton Checkov

“To survive and be happy, Russians have so much to bury, to willfully ignore. Small wonder that the intensity of their pleasures and indulgences…

— Owen Matthews

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times…

— Anton Chekhov

“could tell that one of the Russian proverbs he loved was on the way. ‘The only place with free cheese is a mousetrap”

— A.D. Miller

“A need to wander was in most Russians' blood, particularly the less well-off classes, and without positions, property, and status to fetter them, they…

— Jane Oakley

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come…

— John Steinbeck

“Deceivingly, Miss Neville, the word vodka means 'little water.' The Russians are masters of the understatement." - Lord Nash”

— Liz Carlyle

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

— D. H. Lawrence

“enough vodka to kill a Russian army.”

— A.G. Riddle